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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen de Jane Austen

The Complete Novels of Jane Austen: Timeless Classics

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Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a platform from which to address issues of gender politics and class consciousness among the British middle-class of the late eighteenth century. The novels included in this collection from the elegant Knickerbocker Classics series--Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan--represent all of Austen's complete novels, and provide the reader with an entrance into the world she and her memorable characters inhabited.

With witty, unflinching morality, Austen portrays English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close and the nineteenth century began. Austen's heroines find happiness in many forms, each of the novels is a story of love and marriage--marriage for love, financial security, and for social status.

In a publishing career that spanned less than ten years, her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime. It wasn't until the 1940s that she became widely accepted in academia as a great English writer. The second half of the 20th century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship and the emergence of a fan culture. Austen's works continue to influence the course of the novel even as they charm readers today.

The Timeless Classics series from Rock Point brings together the works of classic authors from around the world. Complete and unabridged, these elegantly designed gift editions feature luxe, patterned endpapers, ribbon markers, and foil and deboss details on vibrantly colored cases. Celebrate these beloved works of literature as true standouts in your personal library collection.

Other titles in the series include: The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales of H.P. Lovecraft, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

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ISBN-13: 9781631066436
ISBN-10: 1631066439
Pagini: 1232
Dimensiuni: 172 x 244 x 60 mm
Greutate: 1.91 kg
Editura: Quarto Publishing Group USA, Inc.
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Maria Irinel Mocanu a dat nota:

I have been in love with Austen's writing ever since I read Pride and Prejudice while in college. At the time, it was just another book that HAD to be read. Still, the more I read, the more I got involved in the plot, partly because, you see, I can say I totally identified with Elizabeth. And it was just the beginning. I breathlessly read Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park and I have yet to read Northanger Abbey. I believe her novels offer such a fresh and yet classical insight into women's soul and the journey of self-discovery that the characters need to follow in order to find true love is presented majestically against an intricate background of a perfectly-detailed society, whose actors are finely defined through their flaws or their qualities. It is often the case that only the main characters are deep and complex, projected against a shallow and simple-minded world, only to underline those characteristics that are so rare in Austen's world, and, I am sorry to say, in ours too. I admire her ability to finely observe a more than imperfect society and to spot the beauty in it, to convey healthy ideas and change mentalities, to be so modern although times presumably have changed. And I admire her delicate and yet strong rebellion against Victorian standards that limitated women's freedom, her fight against women's being predented as assets (or not) of an enragingly patriarchal society. Austen is a true feminist, and she is so determined to give her characters the happiness she could not achieve in her life, having them risk their quiet, yet meaningless existence, in pursuit of true love. Which comes, even one has to wait a lifetime, as Anne Elliot does in Persuasion. And one final thought: I strongly believe that a good book has the power to address the readers' heart...it is exactly what her novels do. I found myself crying or laughing, meditating and despairing, wondering what Jane and her characters would do, what I would do in similar situations, and I believe that this is exactly the point of a good book: to challenge your critical thinking and to make you feel, even if that feeling may be despair and sadness. Jane's expectations of the world, and implicitly, of men were high. And teaching women not to settle for less is the greatest lesson of all. Always know your worth and find somebody who loves you ardently for who you are... and keep an open mind, otherwise, just like in Sense and Sensibility, you might not see the one standing before you the whole time... So, respectfully, I recommend Jane's novels to be read and re-read at all ages, because they have to offer something for everyone. And my secret wish would be for men to read them too, they might offer some clear and fresh insight into the so-called mysterious feminine mind and they might be that revelation that changes everything for the better.

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Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a platform from which to address issues of gender politics and class consciousness among the British middle-class of the late eighteenth century. The novels included in this collection from the elegant Knickerbocker Classics series--Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan--represent all of Austen's complete novels, and provide the reader with an entrance into the world she and her memorable characters inhabited.

With witty, unflinching morality, Austen portrays English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close and the nineteenth century began. Austen's heroines find happiness in many forms, each of the novels is a story of love and marriage--marriage for love, financial security, and for social status.

In a publishing career that spanned less than ten years, her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime. It wasn't until the 1940s that she became widely accepted in academia as a great English writer. The second half of the 20th century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship and the emergence of a fan culture. Austen's works continue to influence the course of the novel even as they charm readers today.

The Timeless Classics series from Rock Point brings together the works of classic authors from around the world. Complete and unabridged, these elegantly designed gift editions feature luxe, patterned endpapers, ribbon markers, and foil and deboss details on vibrantly colored cases. Celebrate these beloved works of literature as true standouts in your personal library collection.

Other titles in the series include: The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales of H.P. Lovecraft, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

Notă biografică

Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the British middle class, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary has gained her historical importance among scholars and critics, though her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime. Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. Although Jane Austen wrote from her teenage years into her thirties, her most notable writing was done from 1811 until 1816. During this period she wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but she died before completing it at the age of 41.